James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> On 11/03/2008, Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@???> wrote:
>
>> Sean Gibbins wrote:
>> > Russell Gadd wrote:
>> >> Jon Wilks wrote:
>> >>> Jack Knight wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Russell Gadd wrote:
>> >>>> Or of course my personal favourite, VirtualBox. It's free, does
>> >>>> multiple
>> >>>> snapshots, has lots of tweakable options and IMHO is faster than
>> >>>> VMWare.
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I agree on VirtualBox. I have found it to be very usable. The
>> >>> following link was useful when setting it up.
>> >>>
>> >>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox
>> >>>
>> >>> Jonny.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> Jonny,
>> >>
>> >> I decided to give Virtualbox a go and followed your link to install
>> >> on Ubuntu 7.10. I used the steps specified for Gutsy but this failed
>> >> at the first hurdle: Running the "install" command I got the message:
>> >>
>> >> FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
>> >> * Modprobe " failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
>> >>
>> >> However dmesg had nothing in it relating to this
>> >>
>> >> I posted a more complete description of my problem in a Virtualbox
>> >> forum here
>> >> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=5082&sid=207d8269d486283119faafcbebfc4c16
>> >>
>> >> but so far no-one has responded to help.
>> >>
>> >> Did you follow this recipe? Any clues you could give would be
>> >> appreciated.
>> >
>> > Hi Russell,
>> >
>> > Is there a reason why the version within the Ubuntu repositories is
>> > not suited to purpose?
>> >
>> > There may be in which case please ignore the question. I used Synaptic
>> > to install Virtualbox on two machines here and have yet to encounter
>> > problems with the installation. I do have a problem regarding USB
>> > devices not showing up within the VMs which I may put into another
>> > thread, but ironically it appears this may be one reason why one might
>> > want to install the package provided by Virtualbox rather than the
>> > version from the Ubuntu repositories, from what I have googled.
>> >
>> > Sean
>> >
>>
>> Hi Sean,
>>
>> Since you said you didn't have any problems installing it this way I
>> tried it. However it failed just the same. I kept my eyes on the
>> "details" panel and the same error flashed by, although Synaptic didn't
>> tell me about it when it had finished. In any case the Ubuntu community
>> website recipe uses apt-get which does use the version in the repositories.
>>
>> I haven't resorted to trying to install the source manually and
>> compiling, as clearly others have been able to do it the easy way with
>> dowloaded binaries.
>>
>> I may try installing it under Debian Etch (as I have it as one of my
>> multibooted OS's) to see if I can get any joy there.
>>
>>
>> Russell
>>
>>
>>
>
> You need a kernel module called "vboxdrv.ko" that should be somewhere
> under /lib/modules
> It is dependent on the kernel version you are running, so if ubuntu
> does not include the correct out out of the box, you will have to
> compile your own.
> For the compile to work, you will need to have installed the kernel
> headers. aptitude install linux-headers
>
> James
>
>
Thanks for the info - I have just installed in Debian Etch, so will give
that a go first.
Russell
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